Re: Questions about developing Emacs

[Federico Tedin <federicotedin@gmail.com>]

>> - Will replies to older bugs (say, 1 or 2 years old) still get noticed
>> by the maintainers?
>
> All emails about bug reports get sent to the mailing-list
> bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, so yes it will be seen by those who subscribe to
> this list. You can also explicitly add a `Cc:` if you want input from
> someone in particular (e.g. I don't subscribe to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> any more, so if you want my input on a particular bug, make sure I'm in
> the `Cc:`).
>
>> - What's the best way of moving from fixing small things, onto
>> adding/modifying larger parts of how Emacs works? I imagine that this
>> greatly depends on the amount of time spent working on the project.
>
> Beside Eli's answer, you might also get ideas from discussions (where
> members of emacs-devel may be able to help you move from a local
> problem to a more far-reaching solution).
>
>
>         Stefan

I'm taking note of both things. Thanks!